National Register of Historic Places
Pennsylvania Match Company
Bellefonte, Centre County, Pennsylvania
The record
- Listed
- September 7, 2001
- Type
- Building
- Address
- 367 Phoenix Ave., Bellefonte
- County
- Centre
- State
- Pennsylvania
- Period of significance
- 1875 to 1949
- Contributing resources
- 17 buildings, 1 structure
- Coordinates
- 40.90922, -77.78634
- Reference number
- 01000954
The story
Written by AI from this property's National Register nomination and the record above; every sentence is checked against its sources before it appears here. Corrections: privacy@treealive.com
The Pennsylvania Match Company is a match factory complex of 17 contributing buildings and one contributing structure at 367 Phoenix Ave. in Bellefonte, Centre County, listed in the National Register in 2001. It was built in stages from 1899 to 1947, and Robert Cole served as architect.
Why it's listed
It was listed under criterion A and criteria consideration G, with state-level significance in industry. Its period of significance runs from 1899, when the company organized, to 1947, when production there ceased.
Physical character
The buildings have brick and stone walls on brick foundations, under slate and asphalt roofs, with segmental-arched, double-hung windows. Rooflines range from high-sloped gables with stepped parapet walls to hipped and gambrel forms, framed in timber with open truss work and a corbelled cornice. Between 1911 and 1922 the roof gained a gabled, stepped-parapet profile, and between 1922 and 1931 building #3 gained a second story, a south-facade addition and a raised monitor.
Historical context
Federal Match Corporation bought it in 1923, and Pan-American Match Corporation bought it in 1940, becoming the Universal Match Corporation in 1941. Match production there ran from 1900 to 1947, and the property was later sold in 1996 for prospective use as a microbrewery.